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Plural of ranch

regular plural

The plural of ranch is ranches.

Forms of ranch

Singularranch /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
Pluralranches
Countablecountable and uncountable

Ranches in a sentence

  • Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.
  • In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.2000, Shirley W. Gray, Australia, page 31. From the entry outback
  • This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry mott
  • And she did not take her foot off the gas, zigzagging over the southern areas of the country—that vast anti-Alaska of waffle houses and sunshine, cattle ranches and swamplands.2013, Leigh Newman, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press…. From the entry waffle house
  • Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.1947 July 26, Jim Marshall, “Glamor Hits the Range”, in Walter Davenport, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: The…. From the entry near-by

Meaning of ranch

  1. noun A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
  2. noun A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
  3. noun A house or property on a plot of ranch land.

Full definition of ranch

Questions about the plural of ranch

What is the plural of ranch?
The plural of ranch is ranches.
Is ranch countable?
Ranch is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ranch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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